408 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



•3 in. long ; bracts leafy, linear or spathulate, '5 to 1 in. long ; bracteoles 

 linear, obtuse at tip, similar to calyx-lobes ; buds clavate, the tip ovoid ; 

 flowers yellowish. Calyx-iwbe very short ; lobes linear, -2 in. long, 

 pubescent and with few hispid hairs near the obtuse tip, slightly 

 recurved ; glands few, minute. Gorolla-ivhe -3 to 4 in. long, glabrous 

 except near the base inside ; lobes '15 to '2 in. in diameter, ovate- 

 cordate, densely pubescent, the margins incurved. Anthers 4, linear- 

 lanceolate, apiculate, "15 in. long ; filaments "05 in. long, slender, 

 decurrent in the tube. Ovary conoidal, more or less 4-angled, glabrous 

 or pubescent ; style slender, -125 in. long ; stigma globose, apiculus 

 bifid ; cells 2, ovules 3 in each cell. Berry ovoid, about 1-25 to 1'5 in. 

 long and 1 in. in diameter; pericarp leathery, shining without, wrinkled 

 when dry, pulp very scanty, septum thin. Seeds up to 6, ovoid-oblong, 

 •6 in. long by '35 in. broad, slightly grooved at the hilum ; testa mem- 

 branous, brown ; cotyledons very thick, unequal. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 397 ; Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 628. L. cusindata, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 

 Bat. I. 112 ; Miq. I. c. 398. Melodinus ? eugenifoUus, Wall. Cat. 1616. 



Kedah : Gantley 230. Penang : Wallicli 1616 ; Curtis 1061 ; King's 

 Collector 996a, 1452. Peeak: Curtis; Wray 629, 630, 3141, 4248; 

 Scoi'techini 1281. Singapgee : Bidley 2724. — Disteib. Sumatra 

 {Teysmann 4053; Beccari 844; Curtis 3551; Forbes 1586, 2725), 

 Borneo {Burbidge, Beccari 3246). 



2. Leuconotis Maingayi, Dyer in Herb. Kew. ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. III. 628 (1882). A climbing shrub ; branchlets stout, nearly as 

 thick as a goose-quill, nearly black when dry, obtusely quadrangular, 

 the nodes swollen and crossed by a slender ridge joining the bases of 

 the petioles. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, coriaceous ; elliptic- 

 oblong, abruptly and obtusely caudate-acuminate at apex, attenuately 

 rounded at base; shining on the upper surface and very dark brown 

 when dry, paler and dull on the lower ; margins recurved ; 3 to 5 in. long, 

 1'5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib strong, channelled above, raised beneath ; main 

 nerves 6 to 10 pairs, the lowest very near the margin and starting the 

 rather obscure intramarginal looped nerve, to which the others, which 

 start from the midrib at about 60°, gradually curve ; secondary nerves 

 none or very few ; reticulations obliquely transverse, rather prominent ; 

 petiole 1-25 in. long, channelled above by the decurrent margins of 

 the blade, which become connivent. Cymes very stout, about as long as 

 the petiole, about 15- to 20-flowered ; peduncle very thick, flattened, -25 

 to '5 in. long and '15 to '25 in. broad, much enlarging in fruit ; branches 

 about 4, these again 2-chotomously branched, very stout, as are the 

 very short (up to -15 in. long) pedicels; bracts ovate-acute, clasping the 

 branches and bases of the pedicels ; buds clavate, the tip conical. 



